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Sin & Punishment: Star Successor is on track to launch in the U.S. this summer, a decade after the N64 original was released in Japan. To bring North Americans who haven’t played the Virtual Console version up to speed, president Satoru Iwata gathered several developers who were involved with the original project to discuss their memories for the latest Iwata Asks.
Particularly interesting is the revelation that a peripheral was in development for the N64 at the time that would have functioned as a pointer of sorts.

Treasure president Masato Maegawa briefly mentioned the peripheral during the discussion, but said that the developer decided not to use it because it would have lengthened development time.

“When I saw the Wii Remote controller, I thought, “So this is the sensor they were talking about!” Maegawa said. “So I said, “Come on, let’s make Sin & Punishment for Wii!” and started bugging [director Atsutomo Nakagawa and art director Yasushi Suzuki] about it.”

The rest of the interview serves as quite an interesting look into the history of Sin & Punishment, particularly the developmental difficulties that kept it in development for three long years.

The complete interview is here. Sin & Punishment for the Wii will be out June 27.

Somewhat lost in the controversy surrounding Infinity Word is the fact that another Call of Duty will be out this year, this time from Treyarch. That game is set to be revealed this week later this week over on Gametrailers.
The announcement will be accompanied by a teaser trailer that will put to rest the speculation that has surrounded the game for several months now. With Activision now ready to move on from World War II, word is that Treyarch is tackling the Vietnam War.

That speculation was bolstered back in February when Activision put out a casting for major characters from the real-life Military Assistance Command Vietnam, which was active from 1964 – 1972.

As described in the casting call, the four characters are the “fiercely patriotic” leader Frank Barnes, the “physically fit” Joseph Lewis, 15-year veteran Jason Hudson and Russian-born martial arts expert and CIA operative Kristina Ivanova. It’s rumored to be similar to films like Platoon and Apocalypse Now.

We’ll know more when the trailer air this Friday. The game itself will likely be out in November.

THQ has revealed the full roster for UFC Undisputed 2010, slated to be released next month. GameStop has the list, which includes some 100 fighters across multiple weight divisions.
Additions include Marcus Jones, Pat Barry and Luiz Cane. Notably absent are Wanderlei Silva and Randy Couture, the latter signing on with EA’s MMA game. This year’s featured fighter is University of Minnesota and WWE alum Brock Lesnar, who is the current UFC Heavyweight Champion.

The demo set to be released this week will feature light heavyweights Lyoto Machida, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, Rashad Evans and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.

The full game is due on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PSP on May 25. Check out the full roster below. “N” denotes new fighters, “P” refers to fighters available in promotional deals and “L” refers to PS3 exclusive legendary fighters.

HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION
Mustapha Al-Turk (N)
Andrei Arlovski
Pat Barry (N)
Shane Carwin (N)
Mirko Cro Cop
Junior Dos Santos (N)
Todd Duffee (N)
Gabriel Gonzaga
Antoni Hardonk
Heath Herring
Marcus Jones (P)
Cheick Kongo
Brock Lesnar
Justin McCully
James McSweeney (P)
Frank Mir
Roy Nelson (P)
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Eddie Sanchez
Brendan Schaub (P)
Dan Severn (L)
Kimbo Slice (N)
Stefan Struve (N)
Cain Velasquez
Fabricio Werdum
HEAVYWEIGHT & LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISIONS
Mark Coleman
Brandon Vera
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION
Ryan Bader
Stephan Bonnar
Jason Brilz (N)
Luiz Cane (N)
Steve Cantwell (N)
Rashad Evans
Forrest Griffin
Matt Hamill (N)
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson
Keith Jardine
Jon Jones (N)
Chuck Liddell
Lyoto Machida
Tito Ortiz
Mauricio Rua
Thiago Silva
Krzysztof Soszynski (N)
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT & MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISIONS
Vitor Belfort (N)
Michael Bisping
Rich Franklin
Wilson Gouveia
Dan Henderson
Anderson Silva
MIDDLEWEIGHT DIVISION
Yoshihiro Akiyama (N)
Ricardo Almeida
Alan Belcher (N)
Patrick Cote (N)
Kendall Grove
Dennis Kang (N)
Chris Leben
Demian Maia
Nate Marquardt
Drew McFedries
Dan Miller (N)
Yushin Okami
Nate Quarry (N)
Chael Sonnen (N)
MIDDLEWEIGHT & WELTERWEIGHT DIVISIONS Martin Kampmann
Mike Swick
WELTERWEIGHT DIVISION
Thiago Alves
Carlos Condit (N)
Marcus Davis
Jon Fitch
Royce Gracie (L)
Dan Hardy (N)
Dustin Hazelett (N)
Matt Hughes
Anthony Johnson
Dong Hyun Kim (N)
Josh Koscheck
Chris Lytle
Karo Parisyan
Amir Sadollah
Georges St-Pierre
Paulo Thiago (N)
Frank Trigg (N)
James Wilks (N)
WELTERWEIGHT & LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISIONS BJ Penn
Diego Sanchez
Matt Serra
Sean Sherk
LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION
Nate Diaz
Frankie Edgar
Efrain Escudero
Terry Etim (N)
Spencer Fisher
Kenny Florian
Hermes Franca
Tyson Griffin
Clay Guida (N)
Joe Lauzon
Gray Maynard
Cole Miller (N)
Ross Pearson (N)
Kurt Pellegrino (N)
Jens Pulver (L)
Dennis Siver (N)
Joe Stevenson
Caol Uno (N)